Concerta and anxiety/on-edge feeling.. Any suggestions?

mattj949 · 01-13-2004, 09:05 PM

I have suffered with ADHD my entire life and was off medication for a long time.

I went back on medication earlier this year (Straterra, but quit it after 1 week due to the EXTREME side-effects) and am now on Concerta 36mg.

Lately I find myself so agitated, on-edge. My anxiety level has gone way up as well. I find myself getting hostile toward other people and just so easily annoyed by the smallest things. Driving, for example is so nerve-wracking that I don't even want to go anyplace.

However, my ADHD symptoms have gone down so I am reluctant to go off of it.

Has anyone else had this problem with Concerta? Should I maybe ask the doc to try Adderal or something else?

index.html · 01-13-2004, 10:08 PM

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Originally Posted by mattj949

Has anyone else had this problem with Concerta? Should I maybe ask the doc to try Adderal or something else?

Ya know, I find that Concerta seems to build up in my system. After taking 36mg for a number of days in a row, anxiety and insomnia become problems. I take occasional days off and occasionally take only 1 in a day to counteract this.

But, yes, I think that it might be worth it for you to try something else. My counselor recently suggested to me that just because the Concerta is *really* helpful to me, doesn't mean that one of the others wouldn't be better. She has a point.

mattj949 · 01-14-2004, 01:07 AM

It was like pulling teeth to get my doc to give me the Concerta.. so he may be reluctant to give me something else.

I'll bring it up to him.

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Originally Posted by index.html

Ya know, I find that Concerta seems to build up in my system. After taking 36mg for a number of days in a row, anxiety and insomnia become problems. I take occasional days off and occasionally take only 1 in a day to counteract this.

But, yes, I think that it might be worth it for you to try something else. My counselor recently suggested to me that just because the Concerta is *really* helpful to me, doesn't mean that one of the others wouldn't be better. She has a point.